I tried putting "xterm" only in my .xinitrc. Once xterm is launched (without window management..., but otherwise works fine), if I launch manually /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/klauncher it tells me I should not run that manually, that it is started automatically by kdeinit4. If I then try /usr/bin/kded4, I get the same error as reported earlier:
kded(7702): Communication problem with "kded" , it probably crashed. Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" "
Running "startkde" from the xterm I get:
startkde: Starting up... kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/klauncher kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kded4 kded(10731): Communication problem with "kded" , it probably crashed. Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" "
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kcminit_startup kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/ksmserver startkde: Shutting down... klauncher: Exiting on signal 1 startkde: Running shutdown scripts... startkde: Done.
Why can't kded4 connect to my dbus?? 2009/5/27 Damjan Georgievski <gdamjan@gmail.com>
startkde: Starting up... kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/klauncher kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kded4 kded(7702): Communication problem with "kded" , it probably crashed. Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" "
this suggests kded didn't run .. maybe try to start it manually and see where it breaks .. or even better start with xterm only and run each kde component one by one.
-- damjan